THE HISTORT OF SPIRITUALISM

A. : Will.

Now, a will by which I had benefited was threatened
to be disputed. I wished to know whether the threat
would be carried out. The answer I received was correct,

It may be added that Mr. Young had no belief,
before or after this seance, in spirit agency, which
surely, after such an experience, is no credit to his
intelligence or capacity for assimilating fresh know-
ledge.

The following letter in The Spiritualist from Mr.
John Malcom, of Clifton, Bristol, mentions some well-
known sitters. Discussing the question that had been
raised as to where the first seance in England was held
and who were the witnesses present at it, he says :

I do not remember the date ; but calling on my friend
Mrs. Crowe, authoress of " The Night Side of Nature,"
she invited me to accompany her to a spiritual seance at
the house of Mrs. Hayden in Queen Anne Street, Caven-
dish Square. She informed me that Mrs. Hayden had
just arrived from America to exhibit the phenomena of
Spiritualism to people in England who might feel interested
in the subject. There were present Mrs. Crowe, Mrs,
Milner Gibson, Mr. Colley Grattan (author of " High
Ways and Bye Ways"), Mr. Robert Chambers, Dr. Daniels,
Dr. Samuel Dickson, and several others whose names I did
not hear. Some very remarkable manifestations occurred
on that occasion. I afterwards had frequent opportunities
of visiting Mrs. Hayden, and, though at first disposed to
doubt the genuineness of the phenomena, such convincing
evidence was given me of spirit communion that I became
a firm believer in the truth of it.

The battle in the British Press raged furiously.
In the columns of the London Critic, Mr. Henry

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